The Trish Regan Show - BREAKING: Rubio WARNS Americans AS Spain’s Border Crisis IMPLODES! Europe’s ‘Open Borders’ COLLAPSE

Episode Date: August 17, 2026

Marco has a message to Americans about Spain…but, what’s happening there is bigger than Ceuta. It’s a warning to the world. Of course — it didn’t have to be this way. Look at Poland. Poland got tough on its border — and now, as Europe struggles with migration, its approach is getting a whole lot more attention. Meanwhile, the timing couldn’t be more dangerous. Tensions with Iran are escalating, and well-sourced reporting suggests Tehran may be preparing for a bigger conflict — not a smaller one. And as Europe wrestles with the economic costs of migration, Britain’s Reform Party is pushing a bombshell proposal: no welfare for non-citizens. Could this become the next major fault line tearing Europe apart? I’m Trish Regan, LIVE from the UK. We’ve got all of it — and more. ✅ Support independent journalism — become a TRISH TEAM member: ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBlMo25WDUKJNQ7G8sAk4Zw/join ✅ Get my newsletter and start investing today! Https://76research.com ✅🔔 CHECK OUT MY NEW SPOTIFY SHOW AND PLEASE SUBSCRIBE FOR FULL DAILY EDITIONS: https://open.spotify.com/show/2blgbg4OaN5dqFhkBy12ii?si=HPdSujPDRrapZWtxbsgAjQ&nd=1&dlsi=979e048c08c04e13 TODAY’S SPONSORS: Learn about investing in precious metals today at: https://TrishLovesGoldandSilver.com Get 15% off OneSkin with the code REGAN at https://www.oneskin.co/REGAN  #oneskinpod https://cozyearth.com/REGAN and use my code REGAN for up to 20% off! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Marco has a message, everyone. Marco has a message for Spain. Marco has a message for the world Marco Rubio, that is. And it's really interesting, and it's actually kind of nuanced here. So you look at what's happening in Seuta, Spain. You've probably seen some of the images. Certainly if you watch this show, you've seen some of these images, and they're pretty bad.

You had 80,000. Yeah, that's the latest number. 80,000. We originally heard 50,000, 60,000, and it's 80,000 migrants that poured in from Morocco and Bordeaux over into Seuta, to Spain just at the start of the month, around July 30th into August 1st, and they're still there. So even though you have Pedrito Sanchez, I like to call him Little Pedro, because, you know, he's just little in spirit in so many ways, even though he's out there saying, oh, you know,

everything's fine, it's fine. It's not fine. The people are still struggling with the remnants of the thousands and thousands. We changed our law. That is Poland. We're going to go into that in a second because Poland wouldn't put up with this, not for two seconds, right? Marco has a message. He doesn't want anybody going to Spain.

They have raised the threat level, if you would, for U.S. citizens traveling to Spain and most especially to that Sayuta region in Spain, because that's what's really, really tough. Again, those migrants still there littering the beaches. We've got some video here. I think I can show you here. I want to take a look at this. This is a T-Uta is far from over. The media is- This is a TikTok reporter.

Okay, so this is a TikTok reporter there on the beach in Sayuta, Spain, who has just really uncovered. a lot of this mess. It's pretty gross. He has to wear a mask because they actually have reports of tuberculosis there. This is bad, and this is relevant right now. It's relevant given what's going on with Iran, right? When you think about this migrant invasion and who might be part of that, it's relevant in terms of Iran. The president, not pulling any punches. We're going to get into that today. And it's relevant in terms of what's happening overall with the fabric of Europe, because people are getting pretty, pretty upset. And Spain has not really, how do we say, been playing ball they're not like going with the program here we get situation sayuta is far from over the

media is not showing you guys the full truth look at how big these shelters are here there are hundreds of shelters all along the beach maybe two kilometers long fires food human excreements human disease tuberculosis scabies just to name a few uh this is a really bad situation the locals have been totally abandoned unfortunately these people are also abandoned they don't know their next steps they don't know where they can go the morocans that are here don't want to go back the sub-saharan africans that are here can't go back morocco won't accept them it is terrible families can't go out that live nearby they can't go out safely especially women young girls it is just an unfortunate situation this is a place that was once a

Family Beach is, well, what you see here? How you doing, brother? Oh, man, I don't know. This makes me sad. This makes me sad. And I have to use the mask for hygiene reasons. I don't want to catch tuberculosis. So yeah, saying goodbye from Ciuta, straight of Gibraltar right there, mainland Spain.

Take care, everybody. Wow. So that was Adventures, Adventure, Elliot? I mean, I've seen a bunch of these things. You know, you know who's also over there? Nick is over there, Nick Shirley, and he's been doing some great reporting. And what is he finding that they're all men, right? They're all military-aged young men.

So obviously, there's a whole lot of problems with this on so many levels. Again, the State Department now coming out and saying, don't go there, don't go to Spain, don't go to Seuta. The president had already, about a month and a half ago, advanced this idea that we should have tariffs specifically with Spain. And he also said, don't go there, don't travel. there. I can tell you, having just been nearby there, I was not in, thank goodness, Zeguta, pooh, dodge that one, right? But I was actually nearby. I was in Morocco, and I was in some of these Spanish towns near the Strait of Gibraltar, sort of on the other side, on the European coast. And I can tell you, like, it's not a pretty picture. I mean, the migration

has been massive. I'm in the UK in London now, and it's the same thing. You know, you walk down the street, and it's a very different place. I've traveled over here. throughout the years for many years. And it is a very, very different scenario. And so this is really, it's like, it's reaching this tipping point. I mean, that's how I would talk about it, a tipping point that we're seeing right now. But it makes all the sense in the world. I mean, when you look at what you're seeing, they're on the beach, I mean, these guys,

I guess, just out for a good time, wrestling or something on the beach and say, Uta, that's not going over well with the people, right? That's not going over well, especially when they're attacking police cars and they're creating, okay. You've got a public health hazard. You've got violence in the streets. People obviously do not feel safe. And now the residents are saying,

hey, we're demanding some kind of protection. We want some kind of assurance from Spain, from Pedro Sanchez himself, that we're going to be safe here, that we're going to be okay. And they're not getting that. They're not getting it. They're not getting it.

So just to kind of give you an idea on the geography. and we've talked about this a little bit before, but you've got Sayuta, which is there on the corner there right next to Morocco in northern Africa. And basically, once they're there, they're kind of in the system. Now, I know that Spain's like, oh, you know, it's really not that way. And the Schengen system isn't going to give them automatic entry. But it makes it easier. The other thing that you need to know is that there's a lot of boats coming up to that coast, right?

So you see the state of Gibraltar, which is technically British territory. when they're coming in there to the Spanish coast, it creates a whole lot of other problems. And it's the reason why, it's the reason why Georgia Maloney is now saying, hey, you know what, we're not going to do it. We're not going to have these open borders anymore. And it's why France is clamping down on this. And it's why where I am today in the UK, they're also clamping down on this. I mean, they did so, right, with Brexit.

But now they're looking at how challenging it is from an economic perspective to be taking all these people in. And it's like, hey, look, you know, we did it too. We've been there, right? Been there, done that. And we've lived to tell about it because we now have a border that is completely shut down and is completely clean. And I think a lot of Europeans are looking to, you know, it's like make Spain great again. It's actually a movement that you're seeing in Spain right now. And you look at what the conservative parties are trying to do here in the UK.

You look at what the conservatives are trying to do, Marie Le Pen, right, getting a lot of traction there. in France. There's a reason for this guys, because you have pushed the people of Europe to the point of no return. I mean, they're an altruistic bunch, right? Like really, lovely, you know, lovely, lovely, lovely people. But they can only be pushed so far. And you combine this socialist mindset, right, and this welfare system of the state. And then you layer in, okay, we're going to send millions of millions of people your way. And you're going to have problems. Look at Spain. Okay, so Spain, oh, just about a couple of months ago, came forward with this action. This was a big thing, both from the court in Spain and from Pedro Sanchez,

where they said, hey, we're going to welcome a million people. A million people can come in. And so sure enough, they're coming in. I mean, they were bringing in trucks and trucks of migrants from Morocco there into Seuta. So they said, hey, you know what, come one, come all. And now I think that they're, you know, they're realizing the pain, if you would, that's associated with that. Really and truly a lot of pain. You know, the other kind of interesting thing to think about, and do I have a graphic on this?

I think I wanted to show you a graphic. If I have it, I made up something sort of spiffy. I want to make sure that it's in the rundown for you because it's not as easy as it sounds, right? Like on the one hand, you're like, oh, well, you know, Spain did it to itself. And it did. I mean, Pedro Sanchez is not exactly, how shall we say, a rocket scientist in terms of what he chose to do for his people. But at the same time, I think that our State Department is sending a message because we are historically an ally with Morocco. and Morocco has been playing ball with us. Guess who has not been playing ball?

Sanchez. He's more interested in hanging out with China and Iran than he is with us. So just think this one through for a second. If you want to send a message to little Pedrito, Pedro who's saying, I'll take everybody. You know, you come. There's no such thing as an illegal.

You come. You all welcome everybody. And in fact, I'm going to make a million of you right here and now that have been living illegally in Spain. I'm going to make you citizens. So you say, okay, yeah, buddy, we're going to take you up on that. And suddenly Morocco, our ally, doesn't care so much about their border with Spain anymore. In fact, in the past, they have historically kind of used it as a little bit of a nudge,

and they're not too happy with Sanchez right now because he went over to Algiers, and he was like hanging out with the PM of Algiers, and they don't like Algiers. So you wonder if, you know, and we kind of wink, wink, wink, nod, look the other way, because it is in our interest to tell Sanchez get on with it, get with the program. It is also in our interest to make sure that Sanchez is voted out of office. And I think this is going to do it. I mean, you look at the pictures, right? I think that this is going to do it.

So I just think it's nuanced, it's complicated. Yeah, Marco has a message. We might even, this is what's being rumored right now, we might even look at having to strip Spaniards of the visa entry that they get when they come into the U.S. That's another thing that's being floated. Because if we can't trust the system, how can we let any of them in? Especially at a time when we're going to war. I mean, this is really serious stuff, okay?

Now Morocco, you say, uh, Morocco. Well, Morocco was actually the first nation in the world, in the world, to recognize us. Back when we declared our independence from Great Britain, In fact, there's like a whole, like, little monument and statue and celebration in Morocco if you go to Tangiers. And you can see all that. So with that in mind, with that in mind, maybe we need to kind of expand our friendships. You know how we've been talking about expanding our friendships in the Middle East, like the Kuwaitis, for example. We've given them, or we're talking about giving them a revolving line of credit with the Treasury Department,

as opposed to say the Europeans, because maybe we need friends in high places, shall we say? with deep pockets. I don't know how deep Morocco's are, but at least they're controlling that straight of Gibraltar. We want to have access to that. And Spain is not playing ball. So what do you do about Spain? Maybe we can nudge him along. Maybe we can get him out of office. He's a bad, bad guy for the region, right? Because he's allowed Huawei, or his predecessor did, allow Huawei in there into the 5G system, which gives them a backdoor entry, China, backdoor entry into NATO and communications. So that's a security risk. Lots of reasons to not like Spain right about now, including the fact that they refuse to pay their

NATO bills, right? They're like, don't even talk to us about 5%. We're not even going to think about 5%. But I'll tell you, there is one guy, one guy who's done this, well, one country who has done this quite right. And I mean really, really, really right. Why do you support from migration now? Because I want my future daughter to be alive. Is that enough? Is there a good reason? In Poland, Poland is quite a protected country from immigration. We mean quiet. It's zero. We don't have illegal migrants. It's not quite protected. We did not let them in. None. Zero. Zero. It's because you are afraid of what you're becoming. We're not afraid. We're smart.

We are brave men. Look at me. I'm not afraid of anything. We are brave. We are strong. We are not political correct. We don't give a shit. We take care of our families. Okay. So that's very prominent Polish. politician named Dominic Turchinski, and Dominic Turchinski has been very outspoken on all of this. I want to get to that in a second because Poland, much like the U.S. of A, kind of handled this the right way, and they took so much criticism for it. I was looking back through some NGO reports this morning, and they were all like, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, they were all knocking Poland. And, you know, they're still knocking Poland. But Poland's like, yeah, you know what? We can go out

at night. Young women can go out at night and not have to worry about the things that they're worrying about in other places because you guys weren't so smart about all this. I'm going to have more on that in just a second. But first, a quick shout out to one of our great sponsors. OS1. Have you, I've told you guys about this. I've told you about them. They're really, really terrific. They make fabulous products for your skin. And you know what? I'm actually using them right now because I'm traveling and you get dehydrated and, you know, you need to lock in all that moisture if you're me. Anyway, so I love their moisturizer. And they just came out with a hair product to really, because you know, like you get older, like your hair gets a little thinner, all these sorts of things.

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or we don't want to do something like that. And, you know, they're sitting there kicking back saying, well, you guys were just too stupid. You just, number one, you allowed everybody in. And number two, as they kept coming in, you refused to actually do anything about it. Well, Poland, listen to Dominic here, Poland was willing to use force, if needed, watch.

We changed our law. When our soldier was killed with a spear, we changed our law, and our soldiers can use alive bullets now. So I have a message to all jihadis. Do not come to the Polish border. Do not try to harm any of our soldiers because you will be dead. Sheld dead. And mark my words, communists.

There will come a day when Christian Europe will rise. there will come a day that we will get rid of communists from the government we're going to get rid of jihadists and we're going to make Europe great again and always remember my motto learn from Poland

be like Poland that's actually kind of funny right? Anyway he's got a lot of nationalist pride and I think that right now a lot of Europe kind of needs to pay attention Pay attention hard because they did a lot of things one could say in ways that really have led to a lot of benefits.

I want to play this sound for you that's been making the rounds on the internet. This is a Polish woman and they're asking her like, why is it that you feel so safe? And this has gone viral. It is all over X. It's all over. I think it's on TikTok as well. Let me play this for you. And she answers the question pretty succinctly.

Yeah, I actually commented yesterday that it's really very safe to walk in the evening. You don't feel unsafe walking in the dark streets. Why do you believe that is that is so safe even at nighttime? I don't know, maybe not a lot of immigrants from third world countries. Maybe. Go out on a limb. Yeah. Maybe.

So she's on to something. Poland's onto something. And it's a very different experience now in Poland versus other places. I want to go back. You heard some of this sound earlier from Dominic Turchinsky, but again, he's making it very clear why this is so critical to the country of Poland. And, you know, Europe can go to H-E-T-W-L as far as he's concerned, and as far as many are concerned in Poland. Why do you support for immigration? Because I want my future daughter to be alive. Is that enough? Is that a good reason? In Poland, Poland is quite a protected country from immigration.

What I mean, quite? It's zero. We don't have illegal. migrants. It's not quite protected. We did not let them in. None. Zero. Zero. It's because you are afraid of what you're becoming. We're not afraid. We're smart. We are brave men. Look at me. I'm not afraid of anything. We are brave. We are strong. We are not political correct. We don't give a shit. We take care of our families. So I think that's kind of fascinating because that should be kind of a a logical thing to want to do. I read a study over the weekend, and I was like, you've got to be kidding me.

This can't be for real. The study showed that there is a correlation between low testosterone and how left you were. Kid you not? I should do a deep dive into this. Maybe we will tomorrow. I was like, I mean, all joking aside,

there are some reasons for it, but it was fascinating to me because basically the scientists were concluding that your politics could be, shaped by your testosterone levels. So then I was joking with some of my friends, those of whom that are girls that think like I do. And I'm like, oh, I guess we might, do we just have like more testosterone than your average female? I don't get it. But what they were saying about men was that a lot of the very like Uber left men had very low testosterone levels. And get this. When they increased

their testosterone, they actually started migrating more to the center and more to the right. And I thought that was the funniest thing I had seen, but it basically sort of proves, I guess a lot of my thinking sort of right. Like real men are not okay with the nanny state, right? Real men want to protect their wives and families. Real men want to go out and earn a living and keep what they earn. They don't want the government or Kamala Harris or AOC or El-Said taking over and telling them what they can keep and not keep. It just struck me as sort of amazing. And when you look at what's happened to Europe, I mean, the places when kind of, dare I say,

sissified, right? Like all this wokeness, all this ESG nonsense, all this DEI nonsense. And we got to bring everybody in and I get Sanchez there in Spain saying, hey, come on, come all. And I'm going to make you a citizen. Hey, you can come in and you can get all the rights that you want. Well, all that sissifying, if you would, and I don't mean to sound crass, but, you know, it's Europe.

and they've kind of lost their way. And look, it's partly our fault. Don't get me wrong. I mean, we came up with the whole Marshall Plan and we helped rebuild them and the thinking at the time among the political elites. And smart political scientists was that

if you could just kind of keep everybody the same, you wouldn't have to worry about this rise in sort of frustration or these rise in these various fringe political parties which led to World War II. So we could curate. that somehow. And I guess I would just say this. Look, you can't cure human nature. You just can't. We are what we are, which is why I keep going back to what capitalism, red blood American capitalists that I am,

is the very, very best system because it actually allows for us to be human beings and helps kind of keep these checks and balances. I mean, with reason and I get it, it's not completely totally perfect. And I've often thought that there's a kind of an imbalance that's been happening in our own economy where labor has sort of lost some of its mojo and capital, those that are investing, have kind of taken over. Another conversation for another day, but the point still being that capitalism is the best thing we've got. And so, you look around us here in socialist city where I am.

And yeah, you know what? Maybe the testosterone levels have fallen. That's what socialism does to you over time. We're going to do a deep dive on that study. We really do. It was quite interesting. Overall, in Poland, they seem to be doing okay on the testosterone level and on the sort of political sentiment level.

And they're not willing to just roll over and play dead and turn over their country to every Tom Dick and Harry or Muhammad, Muhammad or Mohammed that may be willing to come in. And so it's a very different sentiment there. And you know, good for them, you know, just good for them. And I think there's some lessons that can be learned there and are important lessons. And even though the NGOs and all the fancy think tanks want to say, oh, they're awful, they're this, they're that, they're racist, et cetera. They're like, hey, we want to preserve what we have.

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her moves it's ours okay it's ours and we were putting up this nice giant lovely wall of steel this is the blockade so they're not going to be able to get any oil out that's the thinking here you know what you guys don't want to play by our rules you don't want to give up your uranium enrichment stuff guess what you're not going to get any oil out so you're not going to have an economy i like this i like this because listen you know we've talked about this before i'm a big believer in using all the economic pressure you can and I am a big believer in making sure that all of your allies sign on to this as well and by allies I mean anybody that does business with Iran is not allowed to do business with us like can we make that clear to India to China to everyone you want to do business with us you're not doing

business with Iran and just to make sure you're not doing business with Iran we've got as you can see in his nice little graphic that he made and he put it I don't know if he made it but he did on true social, we have the blockade. So the wall of blockade and not just the wall of blockade that the wall of steel that is going to be in the way. He's actually now threatening to bomb Oman if Oman gets in the way. So Oman has been put on notice. Don't forget. Oman and Iran were kind of trying to work out some kind of deal where the U.S. would be involved, but they would still have some say over who was going in and out of the Strait of Hormuz. And it looked like that was going to happened for a little while until it didn't. And so now the president is warning Oman that we're

going to bomb the you know what out of them. Oh yeah. This is what he told the Fox reporter. Let me play the sound free today. The president told Fox News, Iran should raise the white flag of surrender. He went on to say, I have no time schedule. I'm not in a hurry. The president indicating that the U.S. naval blockade is continuing to put new economic pressure on the Iranian regime, despite what the Iranians have said publicly. He said they're good poker players, but they're dying, and that the midterms in the United States have nothing to do with the president's thinking. Now, I asked the president about these parallel talks that are taking place between Iran and Oman, about control of the Strait of Hormuz. And the president told Fox News, if Oman gets in the way,

will bomb the S out of them. We went on to talk about a variety of different regional topics, including the U.S. stockpiles of weapons that are currently stationed in the Middle East. The president says what we've used so far is peanuts. He went on to say the United States has a lot of mid-level weapons and that many of the more advanced systems, the president says, were given away by President Biden to Ukraine, for example, when we're talking about air defense that is needed right now in the Middle East. So very interesting.

In other words, if you guys have any plans to gang up against us, you'd better forget about it today, because if you do, we're going to bomb, as you explain, you know what, out of them. Very, very interesting. Apparently the Iranian negotiators have in recent weeks been having some talks with Oman. They had that provisional arrangement in order to manage shipping through the strait,

and those talks have continued on. They have yet to yield any kind of tangible result. It seemed like they had come to some kind of agreement at one point, but that was an agreement that we were then part of, and now we are not. So we just want to make sure that nobody's conspiring. I don't get any ideas, because if you do, you're going to have some trouble. But here's what you also need to think about. Again, we've got the blockade going in.

I think the blockade is smart, economic pressure, economic pressure, and more economic pressure. I know. I saw in the chat, somebody's saying, well, you know, oil is at $83 a barrel. Listen, like, we've had really high oil in the past. And I don't want to downplay that, but I look at the most recent inflation report, and we really haven't had a ton of it. In light of what's going on, I would have thought inflation would have been far worse.

And there's reasons for that, and we can have a whole conversation about productivity and AI, et cetera. it's partly why I think that the Fed ought to be more aggressive in cutting rates rather than leaving them steady or, in fact, even raising them, that would have been a disaster, right? So we don't have a lot of inflation yet in the economy because you're watching to see whether or not those oil prices permeate out through the rest of the economy. How much wiggle room you have, how much time you have. Real Canadian Superstore has everything you need this back-to-school season. Save on lunchbox savers like Ziggy's sliced deli-meat products for always $3.75. And get life brand pure Vita shampoo or conditioner for $8 each.

Canadian Superstore. When you're ready, we're ready with a whole world and more. This is all something that's fair conversation and certainly up for debate, but I would say still at this point in time, we have some wiggle room, okay? We do. So we need to basically run that as far as we can because otherwise you're going to be in a situation where they're then calling the shots. So economic pressure works. This is the pressure campaign. We're sending fresh aircraft because, you know, where USS Abraham was there for quite some time, like nine months. and so they're finally getting some relief. They're going to change out that ship.

And I think we're going to continue on here with lots and lots of pressure. So your guys are not going to get any oil out. We're not going to allow you to trade with any of your buddies. That's over. Game over. And at some point, you're going to have to wake up to the reality of having literally no money. Now, here's the problem. This is an article in the Wall Street Journal today.

I want to share with you, Iran's secret plan to escalate the war. This is what I kept saying, remember? Because I was like, never trust him, never trust him, never trust him. Never trust them because what did they do with the memorandum of understanding that we signed just a few weeks ago? They used it to buy time to go out and figure out how they were going to strategize an even bigger war because they actually want to have a regional conflict. Yeah. Okay.

So here's the article and they make a lot of good points and a lot of points that we talked about right here on this show and a lot of concerns that I had even a few weeks ago when we were looking at that memorandum of understanding. after President Trump signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran in mid-June, administration officials fanned out to build support for an agreement that they hoped would reopen the state of Hormuz and start winding down the war. But that's not what the hardliners wanted. No, because these people just want war. It's all they know.

And this is that you have to get inside their head. You have to. And I've said to you before, you know, listen, we got a great president. But in this particular situation, he's such a realist, right? Because he's like, okay, you guys want to make money. money and we all want to make money and like let's just you know make love not war or in this case make money not war and that is not how these people think because they want control over the region they want to run it all they want to run the whole show they want to run everything here too i mean

what do you think sharia law is about et cetera which is why as we began the show and i talked about sayuta spain and i talked about the immigration challenges that they're having in europe right now i feel like they're very very important in light of what's happening with iran anyway reading on in this article. It says Iran hardliners huddled in Tehran and came up with a different plan, according to Iranian and Arab officials. In their view, the pact was likely just an attempt by the U.S. and Israel to take pressure off the global economy and buy time for a bigger attack down the road. So instead of putting faith in talks, they took the past two months to prepare for a bigger fight. So what did we do? We just gave them rope. We gave them runway. And so I'm going

to get back to, you know, you get two choices here. You can make their life really just a complete, miserable living hell through economic sanctions. You can do that through bombing campaigns. Maybe you do both. But whatever you do, you got to make their life a living hell to the point where they have to negotiate because we keep saying, okay, yeah, you know, we want to get along and we want to make this whole thing work. And, you know, the president keeps giving them these opportunities. You kind of can't give it to him. Okay, I'm sorry. Like, you know, I think he's a heck of a negotiator. I think he's fantastic at what he does. I would just see in this particular case, these guys are bad guys. And these guys are going to keep playing for and swinging for the fences.

Their efforts include giving the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps more control over the country's regular army, appointing hardened veterans of the war with Iraq, and past internal crackdowns to key posts expanding domestic counterintelligence operations and ramping up production of missiles and drones. The leadership quickly seized the initiative attacking ships to tighten Iran's grip on Hormuz and expanding the battlefield to the Red Sea, which Saudi Arabia has used to get around Iran's chokehold in the Persian Gulf, right? So now you get the Houthis and getting in the action there in the Red Sea. And I told you about what was going on near the Nile, right, in Egypt recently, near the Suez Canal. They actually, somebody, we don't know who it is, nobody's actually taking responsibility for that, but I have my suspicions, had a bombing campaign there against some U.S. tankers. So look, unfortunately, it's a problem. And, you know, I'm not going to sit here and say, he shouldn't have done this or he should have done that. I am going to just say right now, you've got to go in eyes wide open and know what we're dealing with. And we're dealing with a regime that wants to grow and grow in a mass power. And so we have to be thoughtful about that. And it's why I think you're seeing sort of this idea of a new NATO, right? The new NATO in the Middle East, the NATO that is going to be the Saudis, that is going to be the Kuwait, that is going to be Qatar, all of these nations, I mean, Qatar, but, you know, all of these nations, anybody who's willing to play ball with us, right? We're willing to play ball with you so long as you're

not on their side. And so we have the strength and the power and the ability to do that right now. So you've got to run the ball right to the end zone. You don't really have a choice. I mean, you just don't have a choice otherwise. Speaking of markets, we were just talking about oil just now and like it could be worse, right? It could be worse. We're going to market that's down a little bit today. As I watch here, some of the numbers, the S&P down four tenths of a percent. Dow off six-tenths of a percent. And I'm looking over at oil, which is trading up 1.8 percent. And I'm looking at gold up 8 tenths of a percent. Glad I bought it the other day when it was down a little bit. Silver is actually trading up 1.6 percent. Look, I like gold and silver. You know me. I'm a big precious metals junkie. And I like gold and silver because I am a long-term investor and I'm holding for many, many, many years. And so, look, I think it's one of the best ways, and certainly on the gold front, where you can hedge inflation. Silver, I like for different reasons. We've talked about it before, especially as somebody who is a believer in the tech economy. There's some utility,

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Trump is really coming out swinging against some of these candidates that we're seeing running for office. When you consider what's going on with Iran right now, when you consider the vulnerabilities that we have, and then you think about some of the funny things that are happening on the way to the forum like Mr. Mamdami, Comrade Mamdami, trying to set up with his office a meeting with Iran, and then his wife traveling over to Lebanon and Syria. And then you look at El Saeed. out there in Michigan. And we already know about Ilhan Omar and some of the others. I mean, the president put this one out over the weekend. This is on his true social, referring to them as jihadists. You know, he kind of threatened to do this. Do you remember? Last week I played you

this soundbite. He was like, gosh, you know, these people kind of seem like jihadist. One of my friends said, I should just call him jihadist. And he's like, I've been thinking about it because that's sort of how they feel. Here, I've got the sound here. We'll play it. They're putting forward, making life easier. Well, the one thing is we have jihadists being elected all over the place. We have this, whether it's communism, jihadism. It's a lot of friends of my called up. He said, you know, really, you should use the word jihadist,

because that's what's happening. And I'm not sure that anybody, if you take a look at what happens in other countries, I think that's not going to be necessarily the way we want to live. But when you look at the radicalism and the craziness of the candidates and the stupidity of what they're suggesting, let's get rid of the Supreme Court, let's get rid of the presidency, let's get rid of the Senate.

They want to get, you know, sometimes I'd like to get rid of the Senate too, but I don't say it, and I wouldn't do it, but you know, they want to get rid of the Senate, they want to get rid of, ideally the House, but they're thinking about maybe keeping the House, you know, isn't that nice? These are people that have been not successful.

They're people that have been, in many cases, failures. They come from other failed countries. And they come here and they tell us how to run our country. They come from places like I won't mention because I don't want to get myself into a controversy. But they come from countries that are not great. They come from, let's say, as an example, Somalia, they come in and then they tell us how to, how our constitution, how our declaration of independence, how it works. It doesn't work that way. And they're not smart.

They have no aptitude. They have nothing going. And they're telling us how to run our country. And I just don't think it's going to happen. I think that they start off. Now, I may be wrong, but, you know, they start off with a big disadvantage. People don't want to have rats.

So he's calling him the jihadists now, and I kind of think that's going to stick. I do. Because their sympathies seem to be, well, how shall I say? Not with the U.S., but rather with a lot of. on. And I think that that's going to be a problem. I mean, so much of a problem that you now have

anchors on MSNBC, or Ms.N, whatever it's called now, Chris Matthews, was on there the other day saying, I don't know if he's an anchor anymore. I guess he's just a, he's just a commentator, he's just a host. But he said, you know, people have to come out and they have to denounce this. They have to say, I'm not for this. I'm not for this. I'm not for this. I'm not a communist. I'm enough, you know, and I don't know was enough we're going to do that. I mean, Shifty shift, no way. Shifty shift came out and said, hey, I'm a big tent, I'm a big tent. And so now Hakeem Jeffries, who kind of had been in that big tent party, Chuck Schumer, too, it's almost like they're listening to the commentators on MSNBC who are saying,

listen, you guys are going to get killed in the polls. And they are. I mean, they're just, they're down. They've sunk to a level like that's, it's lower. than the Titanic. They are way down there. Okay. So they are sinking in the polls, the entire party. And so now they get the MSNBC people putting pressure on saying, you guys got to come out and say something. So clever and conveniently enough, NBC asked Hakeem Jeffries, like, hey, you know, is it time to back away from the DSA? Rahm Emanuel is, you know, what about you, buddy? Listen to his answer. You know, last weekend in Chicago, the DSA held their convention. You're not Democrats. You're a separate party. I'll see you in November. Do Democratic Socialists belong in the Democratic Party,

Leader Jeffreys? Well, what I can say is that I do not support defunding the police. I do not support open borders. I do not support abolishing the Senate. We're focused on actually solving problems that hardworking American taxpayers want us to solve, which is to lower the high cost of living in a situation where life is far too expensive in this country. That's the Democratic agenda. That's what House Democrats are fighting to achieve. Yeah, okay, she kind of let him get away with that one, right? Didn't double back because I think the real question is,

when are you going to actually say DSA is over? Now, he kind of massaged his way through that, but I think it's interesting that he's like, look, I'm not for this, I'm not for this, I'm for this and this. And you're going to have to see more distancing. I mean, otherwise, I don't really see the Democrats I mean, look, I'm nervous about midterms. We're all nervous about midterms.

I look at, you know, your comments, and you guys always tell me that, you know, and you'd be a fool not to be nervous about midterms. However, however, the jihadist stuff is not going to help them. The jihadist stuff is not going to help them, right? Like, that is a serious vulnerability. You know how I know it's a vulnerability? I'm just looking at the numbers out in New York, okay?

New York is going red for the first time in 20 years. This is amazing. The big article about the CNN, poll. This was on the heels of another poll. There was just like a week earlier. It's like poll after pull after poll. And Kathy Hochle keeps dropping like a rock. So Kathy Hochel, the governor of New York, could be out

of a seat because you see, people don't want to sign up for that sanctuary, city, sanctuary state nonsense. Not when they're hurting so badly themselves. They want to know that she cares about New Yorkers first.

So this is becoming a bit of a problem. Damme and his communist nonsense in his grocery stores and his free bus fares that aren't and his locked in rent when it goes up 10%. I mean, he can't get a darn thing done, right? And everybody sees the handwriting on the wall. And the more she appears with him, the more problematic it is for her. Bruce Blakeman, who's running to unseat her, was out over the weekend with the president. He had lovely things to do. They both had lovely things to say about each other. And I want you to hear what Blakeman had to say about his own internal poll numbers. Here we go.

about seven polls already that have me in single digits. It's neck and neck. We're in a virtual tie. So the reason why it's so close and the reason why I will be the next governor of New York is that wherever I go in New York, people are miserable. We're the most overtaxed state in the United States of America. Our electric bills are 70% higher than the national average. And Kathy Hochel is the most pro-criminal governor in the United States.

Every major criminal justice initiative is designed to make it easier for criminals to prey on our communities. So people are fed up. She's given $8 billion of our taxpayer dollars to illegal migrants who just step into our state to get free food, free housing, free transportation, and a free cell phone. They get more than New Yorkers. I will put New Yorkers first. I will make New Yorkers happy again. And all that insanity ends on day one when I become governor. And you make a good point about the... So, he might just get it. I mean, look, and I think that this is very indicative and very telling in general of what's happening nationally, because New York is about as blue as it gets, okay?

New York is really, really, really blue. And the fact that New Yorkers are willing to shift right now, the fact that you're seeing this weakness in Kathy Hochel's polling, I think it's very, very telling because their values are just not aligned right now, not aligned at all. At all. I mean, think about Mamdami getting out there saying, it was actually Kathy Hokel's speech that she was giving the other day in New York,

and at some point he took the microphone from her. You got to watch it because she looks so surprised when he does, and then he just starts going on about the migrant thing. Sorry, if I can just add one more thing to that question. You know, New Yorkers are horrified by the actions of ICE. These are actions that are ripping apart the very fabric of communities across the city and the state. There are neighborhoods today where you can feel the absence of those who do not feel as if they can leave their homes any longer. Okay.

And now if New York are- The problem is there are plenty of people that were born and raised in New York that don't feel like they can leave their homes. I mean, horrifically, today a teenager actually visiting from Australia was in McDonald's in Times Square. and was stabbed in the back and in the ribs, just sitting in the middle of Times Square. I mean, this is not good, right? Like, people being lit on fire. I mean, I hate to even say these words.

I mean, it's scary in New York. And there seems to be no empathy, no sympathy for that. It's like we have to protect the criminals. We have to protect the homeless. We can't actually, like, round up the homeless and put them in shelters and get them the appropriate treatment. We're just going to just live with that? I don't think so, you know?

And it's not just, this is a global phenomenon, guys. It's happening in the U.S. and it's happening where I come to you from right now, right here in London, because the UK's Reform Party is saying enough is enough is enough. The UK's Reform Party wants to end migrant welfare period. Now, gosh, it sounds radical, right? The mood in the public. It's pretty strong in terms of this cannot last.

This is a woman who is a writer at the Spectre. spectator speaking on G.B. News had her on to talk about just how massive a thing this is. And she's saying, like, the public can't take it anymore. They don't want to be paying for these welfare programs for people that are migrants that are, in their view, taking advantage. Let's go back to her name is Talley Fraser. And also, people are taking advantage of this. So with reforms plan, they're proposing 50 billion pounds worth of cuts, Robert Jenrick, their proposed chancellor. And 21 billion pounds of these would be from basically cutting foreign nationals out of the welfare system. It's big and it's bold.

It's big and it's bold indeed. Okay? It's big and it's bold. And if you cut them out of the welfare system altogether, wow. I mean, that would be a real departure from socialism now, wouldn't it? Apparently it comes with some technicalities. And this actually could lead you to the breaking point for all of Europe. because in part of that Brexit negotiation,

they actually agreed that they would cover the welfare benefits of anyone who was, say, from France or from Spain or from Italy, living in the UK and vice versa. They would have reciprocity as far as that went. But if they suddenly say, okay, well, we're just not going to pay for anybody who's not a... At IKEA, we make things just for college life, like the Rosenmandal blackout curtains and graham.

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At Real Canadian Superstore, when you're ready, we're ready, with a whole world and more. UK citizen, then that is going to introduce a new layer of challenge to the whole EU experiment. Again, I've never, ever gotten it. Because you just can't have all these little countries running around with their own little languages and their own, you know, way of doing things. And then suddenly expect that everybody's going to get along hunky dory. No, no, no, no, no. That never made sense to me. You know, and if you're going to have one currency and one system, then you better have like a really good Treasury secretary, a la Alexander Hamilton,

right, who's going to federalize your little European Union. But you don't have that. Instead, you just have a bunch of people with, you know, strong opinions and a lot of disagreement. And so it's just a gigantic mess. But this is inching them one step closer, I think, to kind of come and apart. Listen also to what the reporter had to say about how that would be negotiated and the trickiness of that with the rest of the Europeans. It means that reform should they get into government would have to go and renegotiate with the EU over Brexit because this covers EU nationals with settled status. So that's where a lot of questions come in over would reform be able to do that? Because right now the agreement

basically means that with us and the EU, we treat our citizens sort of the same on both sides. So if we look at removing EU nationals with settled status from the welfare system, then they might look to do that with British people who are living in the EU. So that's a whole- I'm looking at a piece of my mind who's saying,

why the citizens of the country have to pay for the foreigners? I mean, it doesn't really kind of make sense, right? Again, this is the whole thing, like, is just bonkers because you either are the United States of America or you're not. Like, you know, we've got Social Security in the United States of America. Like, you cannot have like England doing this and France doing this and Spain doing this. It's a mess. Like the whole thing has always been a mess.

I've never gotten it. And I think at some point it is actually very fragile and this fragility is getting tested because of the migrant crisis. And at some point, they're going to have big problems. But, you know, they don't want to admit it. Here in the UK, the liberals, they think it's just, it's all like fiction that's created on social media. Listen to this guy's MP of, oh, gosh, I have his name somewhere here. I'll get it, but listen to him first.

We obviously have social media, which is a massive problem at the moment for engagement. I'm tempted to say, you know, how you make your voice heard as a citizen in 2025 in the UK, sets up an ex-account and start writing some sort of nativist content and it will go around the world really, really quickly. Your voice will be heard as quickly as you want it to be, not in a way that I would be comfortable with, and I would suggest probably not aware that most people on the panel this evening would be comfortable with either. But that is a really easy way to get your voice heard. Get some content about, you know, how you think immigration's too high, or immigration is the big thing that's tearing the country apart, etc.

And that goes around the world because social media run by the world's richest man. X is now making sure that you can have your voice heard in a really easy way that you couldn't in the past. God forbid, you have your voice heard. God forbid. Oh, it's just, it's Elon's fault. Yeah. It's Elon.

Let's, can we blame Sayuta Spain on Elon, too? I mean, for goodness sakes, people. For goodness sakes. So they want to say, you know, this is just a bunch of nativism that's created because, you know, Elon wants it to be that way. This guy is Max Wilkinson, MP, British liberal Democrat, surprise, surprise, surprised politician and you know look they're talking about now cutting 50 billion pounds which is a large sum for them and probably be about 67 billion dollars or so um which would be a significant proposal

there they would cut all benefits for the foreigners and they want to have something that's in place instead they're calling it making welfare work so foreign nationals but that would actually include EU citizens would be banned and barred from welfare payments. And it would cover universal credit, housing benefit, pension credit, job seekers allowance, child benefit, free child care, and disability benefits. Wow. So, you know, I don't see it as that controversial. Do you? I mean, I'm curious. I mean, it kind of seems like it makes sense to me, but people are freaking out over here. They're really, really freaking out. And, you know, again, I think that this is kind of reaching a tipping point where people don't want to be paying for all of these migrants that are coming in.

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Those are my three portfolios, American Resilience, Inflation Protection, and Income Buildings. I want to just get to something else because there's some sound coming into us right now of the president. Did you guys see that Caroline Levitt from New Hampshire is leaving her job at the White House, that news breaking last week. And it makes sense. You know, the timing kind of makes sense. You get midterms coming up. She just had another baby.

And I think there's a lot of reasons for her probably wanting to do something a little bit different, like maybe take a job at Fox, right? right about now. As some kind of correspondent, the president has said that she will continue on as an advisor to him, as well as somebody who's very still active in the MAGA movement. So there's a way to do that, right, and maybe work more nine to five than nine to nine, 24-7. So I think that's part of it. The president's giving an interview to a reporter there on Fox. Let's go to him talking about Caroline and how he replaces her because who are you going to bring in? I have some ideas, but she is not going to be an easy set of shoes to fill. Here we go. Is Caroline Levitt

replaceable? No, she's not. She really isn't. She's standing right over there and she's done a great job. You have somebody in mind? She likes her children more than she likes Trump. I'm very concerned about that. It's a lot to juggle, right? And you said you support that going back. Is there somebody have in mind that you'd like to see up at the podium to take over? You. How about you? She could do the job. I think so. What do you think, Carolyn? I like it. I've always liked you. That's why I'm doing this. I don't do this that often. I get off. I make a speech. Here I come off and we see Alexis. You have done a great job. I appreciate it. Thank you very much. Anything else that I didn't ask you, you wanted to make news in this interview. Is Caroline Levin? There we go. So, you know, he's keeping his cards close to his vest at this point. He does do a lot of talking himself, right?

So in actuality, I looked at the numbers. Caroline Levin actually did fewer press conferences than her predecessor, Jean-Pierre. Remember her? She was kind of a disaster. During the Biden administration, but it makes all the sense in the world because the president speaks every day to the press.

So he doesn't necessarily need somebody standing in for him all the time. So who might it be? You guys are sweet. I could never do that job. And I'm going to tell you why, as much as I love the president, I am not a politician. Like, I'm way too honest. I am way too what you see is what you get. And I don't necessarily always think through spin first.

Like, I'm going to take myself out for those reasons. I really don't. I mean, I tell you exactly what I think, whether he's right, whether he's wrong. I have my own view on things. Most of the time I think he's right. but, you know, if I'm worried about the Iranians, I'd be the one who'd get up there and blab, well, you know, we can't really trust them, da, da, da, da, da, da. And that's not your job as the PR person for the president of the United States.

So I would be the worst PR person ever. I promise you, that would not be a job you'd want to see me in. But there are people, I mean, think about Alina Haba, for example, who was his attorney, and she was great in front of the press, and she was great with the press. And she has that attorney background where she can just always talk. his book, right? Whereas, you know, me, like, you know, I'm an opinion maker on a podcast. So you hear my opinion. You don't want to hear my opinion. You want to hear whatever the representation is from the White House and for the president. And so as his spokesperson, I think she'd actually

be terrific at it. What do you think? Alina, anyone, I think she'd be really good. I think there's a lot of people that have had a background in television that would be great, that also have that background in politics because again it's different i'm sort of the you know journalist who came up you know two sides to everything etc and i i i like this job because i have my it forces me to always have an opinion i want to know what i think before i get out here and i spout off to you guys and so i try to look at all sides always and it's it's a big part of what i do but it means i have my own biases and those biases i wear them on my sleeve and they're very evident and sometimes they get me in a lot of trouble. Just as Fox in 2020. But I'm willing to take those hits. I think as the press

person, again, it's a different kind of job and you need somebody who can really deliver the party line is consistent on that party line and doesn't deviate. So I kind of think, yeah, possibly Alina might be a good pick for that. I mean, there's others that maybe are at Fox that maybe want to do something a little bit different or at newsmax or, you know, plenty of these conservative networks that also may have a political background because a lot of those contributors there, in fact, even some of the anchors even, have had those political backgrounds. And so there's probably, I'm thinking, a very, very deep bench and he's going to find someone great. He would, oh, somebody suggested Tommy Lerrin, that would be interesting. That would be very, very interesting. Although Tommy, too,

she's a little bit like me. She's kind of unpredictable. Trish is her own boss. It's so true, Robert. I mean, I really, really am. And peace of my mind is saying, Trish will never leave us, it's true. I would never. How dare Dan Bongino leave, right, to go to the FBI? I won't. You know, I like what I do far too much.

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